Sweetwater Presents: Spring LUXE

Support Sweetwater Center for the Arts this Spring and shop finely crafted artisan jewelry at Spring LUXE! The three-day pop-up boutique will feature handmade jewelry of all styles and price points and is a fundraiser for the Center. With Mother’s Day just around the corner, treat yourself to something special or find unique gifts for the special ladies in your life!

Meghan Olson

Unexceptional. My work is most exceptional in that it isn’t exceptional, often being nothing more than a surprising re-acquaintance with phenomena familiar and already known. I look. I watch and then recreate found moments where light, material, color and space are connected, dependent, and for a brief moment, alive.

Robert Duncan wrote of a meadow where phenomena such as light and space were created by a simple, curious, playful language. In a sense my work exists in this meadow where the particularity of ordinariness is investigated through simple arrangements of common materials, raw and not quite touched, with natural phenomena. Curious, statements and situations are created with cardboard, 2x4’s, wire, fabric, light, gravity and space; everyday materials and spaces paired with unexceptional interventions that express extraordinary circumstances. These are moments of formal connection and disconnection, balance and instability, cause and effect; a seemingly magical transformation of independent articles into something else.

Meghan will be participating in Sweetwater’s Corners of Thought exhibition March 29-April 28, 2018.

Featured Exhibition

Ash & Flash

March 12, 2018

Artist Reception: Friday, March 16, 6:00-9:00pm. Nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Frederick, MD is home to Hood College and The Frederick Clay Studio and is an anchor to the regional ceramic community, serving as the hub where …

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